The annual all-island tournament will be held at the Boca Bay Pass Club, The Gasparilla Inn Tennis Club and the Boca Grande Club. The matches will begin on Saturday, Jan. 17 and will end on Saturday…
BY THE BG GARDEN CLUB
On Wednesday Jan. 7, Elin Haaga presented “Creating Your Own Paradise” to the Boca Grande Garden Club. Elin was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, and moved to Somerset, England…
Megan Sorby, Biologist, will be discussing “The Role of Regenerative Farming in Seafood and Sustainable Growth: A Case Study in Pine Island Redfish” on Monday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at…
Unexpected water hazard or freeze-out
It may have been a stray golf ball that hit a sewer pipe designed for drying sludge that caused a small spill at the water plant on New Year’s Eve.
“It’s…
BY THE GICIA
The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association announces the second year of our collaborative initiative with The Island School focused on the “Living Shoreline,” an…
One hundred and twenty players converged on Coral Creek Club on New Year’s Day. Participants included members, family and guests. A two-person 18-hole par 3 scramble, with tee boxes & pins in so…
Barred owls are expanding their habitat because the forest in the East has been cut down. That’s called adaptive range expansion. And do you know what? Whether you believe in God or nature, whatever…
A resolution starts with a goal, A promise made within your soul, To grow, to learn, to start each day, To let old habits fall away. It’s not perfection that we seek, But steady steps, week by week…
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
Fishing in and out of the boat recently has brought us to meet some new friends. Sometimes the fish we catch are only part of the story. The Dalai Lama defines sentient being…
Banyan Street lost another banyan tree this week. Crews were out Monday removing a tree in the middle of the block, on the south side of the street.
“DOT had to subcontract the removal of the tr…
